Prestack Stolt residual migration Paul Sava* Stanford University Biondo Biondi Stanford University
When is the velocity “correct”?
Motivation Why residual migration? image enhancement Why prestack? migration velocity analysis illumination Why Stolt residual migration? fast, robust
Agenda Prestack residual migration Examples Motivation Methodology
Prestack Stolt residual migration
Prestack & post-stack
Prestack Stolt residual migration Fourier-domain global action depth Velocity ratio ( Velocity ratio (no explicit velocity) Prestack
Agenda Prestack residual migration Examples Motivation Methodology
correct velocity incorrect velocity Example 1 residual migration
Example 2
Example 3 illumination or velocity?
original imageresidual moveoutresidual migration Example 3: comparison
before residual migration after residual migration Example 3
Summary Residual migration –Fourier-domain method –Prestack –No explicit knowledge of velocity Analogous to Stolt migration fast and robust global action